ARTIST: Freelance Whales
TITLE: Weathervanes
LABEL: Mom+Pop/Frenchkiss Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 191kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45m total
RELEASE DATE: 2010-03-06
RIP DATE: 2010-03-19
Track List
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1. Generator 1st Floor 3:07
2. Hannah 3:38
3. Location 4:38
4. Channels 1:18
5. Starring 3:34
6. Kilojoules 3:19
7. Broken Horse 4:38
8. Danse Flat 1:15
9. Ghosting 5:19
10. We Could Be Friends 4:13
11. Vessels 1:44
12. Generator 2nd Floor 4:31
13. The Great Estates 4:01
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/freelancewhales
This Album is fucking tits.
Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange
amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs. Using
whatever musical gadgets they happened upon (mostly harmonium, banjo,
glockenspiel, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, waterphone), the five members
worked at crafting songs with interlocking rhythmic patterns, lush textural
layering, and an engaged group-vocal energy. The result is their debut LP,
weathervanes, whose songs work at evoking a sense of dislocation, or sensory
disorientation. They invite the human spirit to exit the body, if only for brief
moments. Freelance Whales can be spotted in the streets and humble venues of New
York City, and in due time, elsewhere.
"Freelance Whales have managed to channel something eerie, dreamlike, and
seemingly autonomous û the sum of the players being much more than each
individual part" - Mark Steffen, HEAVEmedia
"Amazingly, Freelance Whales are even more arresting live than they are on
record. They exhibit the exuberance of a young band that feels lucky to be
sharing ideas with their audience" - Leo Maymind, Earfarm
"It just doesnÆt feel like kids we grew up with should be this free, so we
figure this five-piece has been transported from some alternate universe or
simpler time when being gleeful was more important than anything else." - RCRD
LBL
"It's awash with gentle, naive bliss, and if you're the type that likes to
observe hooks blossoming with the pace of an actual flower opening, then you
might have just found a new favourite band." - NME